Te Waihora Water Conservation Order – submissions called for
A Water Conservation Order (WCO) is provided for by the Resource Management Act 1991 and recognises the outstanding amenity or intrinsic values that water provides, in either a natural or modified state. Regional and district [...]
Wild Wonderful Coastal Wetlands
The Environment Canterbury education team have produced some great resources to help explain the complexities of the natural world, including Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere. To find out more, visit the ECan website's Wild Wonderful Coastal Wetlands [...]
Application to amend the Water Conservation Order
Environment Minister Nick Smith has approved a joint application from Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu and the Department of Conservation for an amendment to the Water Conservation Order (WCO) which applies to Te Waihora/lake Ellesmere. [...]
Implementing the Community Strategy
In response to concerns about the decline in the water quality of Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere, an Issues group was formed in 2002. This group represented a wide range of interests and they met regularly [...]
The Ellesmere Guardian, WET and Papers Past
WET Trustee Rob McPherson is working on a project which will soon see a further 20,000 digitised pages of the Ellesmere Guardian available to view free of charge, as part of the Papers Past project. [...]
Summary of key findings from Living Lake 2009
A summary of the key findings and conclusions from the second Living lake Symposium, held in late 2009, is now available to be downloaded. A number of potential scenarios for lake level management were presented [...]